Scriptures about laziness and Idleness - Bible Verses Online

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1 Timothy 5:13 And withal they learn [to be] idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
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Isaiah 56:10 His watchmen [are] blind: they are all ignorant, they [are] all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
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Ecclesiastes 10:18 By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
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Ecclesiastes 4:5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
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Proverbs 26:16 The sluggard [is] wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
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Proverbs 26:15 The slothful hideth his hand in [his] bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.
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Proverbs 26:14 [As] the door turneth upon his hinges, so [doth] the slothful upon his bed.
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Proverbs 26:13 The slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion in the way; a lion [is] in the streets.
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Proverbs 24:34 So shall thy poverty come [as] one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
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Proverbs 24:33 [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
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Proverbs 24:32 Then I saw, [and] considered [it] well: I looked upon [it, and] received instruction.
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Ezekiel 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
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Matthew 20:6 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
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2 Thessalonians 3:11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
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2 Thessalonians 3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
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Acts 17:21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
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Luke 19:24 And he said unto them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give [it] to him that hath ten pounds.
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Luke 19:23 Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
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Luke 19:22 And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, [thou] wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:
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Luke 19:21 For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.
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Luke 19:20 And another came, saying, Lord, behold, [here is] thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:
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